Interesting video which popped up in my feed earlier... I spied a TF card in the mix...
Can all registered uses please login, even just for a few minutes..
It helps build a picture where our "good traffic" is coming from..
Thanks :)
It helps build a picture where our "good traffic" is coming from..
Thanks :)
68000 - The CPU ahead of its time
-
rubber_jonnie
- Site Admin
- Posts: 15495
- Joined: Thu Aug 17, 2017 7:40 pm
- Location: Essex
- Contact:
Re: 68000 - The CPU ahead of its time
An interesting watch, marred only by spelling Motorola as Motorolla quite a few times early on!
Am I OCD, perhaps...
Am I OCD, perhaps...
Collector of many retro things!
800XL and 65XE both with Ultimate1MB,VBXL/XE & PokeyMax, SIDE3, SDrive Max, 2x 1010 cassette, 2x 1050 one with Happy mod, 3x 2600 Jr, 7800 and Lynx II
Approx 20 STs, including a 520 STM, 520 STFMs, 3x Mega ST, MSTE & 2x 32 Mhz boosted STEs
Plus the rest, totalling around 50 machines including a QL, 3x BBC Model B, Electron, Spectrums, ZX81 etc...
800XL and 65XE both with Ultimate1MB,VBXL/XE & PokeyMax, SIDE3, SDrive Max, 2x 1010 cassette, 2x 1050 one with Happy mod, 3x 2600 Jr, 7800 and Lynx II
Approx 20 STs, including a 520 STM, 520 STFMs, 3x Mega ST, MSTE & 2x 32 Mhz boosted STEs
Plus the rest, totalling around 50 machines including a QL, 3x BBC Model B, Electron, Spectrums, ZX81 etc...
Re: 68000 - The CPU ahead of its time
I didn't notice that. But I think he called the CPU internal 16bit by mistake at one point..rubber_jonnie wrote: Fri Apr 25, 2025 11:25 pm An interesting watch, marred only by spelling Motorola as Motorolla quite a few times early on!
Am I OCD, perhaps...
I'm not sure he mentioned the idea of 32bit was to make the codebase future proof for the future 32bit cpus. He talks about registers and code a bit... Wasn't really paying much attention as been really tired today
Re: 68000 - The CPU ahead of its time
Because 68000/8/10/12 are internally 16 bitexxos wrote: Fri Apr 25, 2025 11:36 pm I didn't notice that. But I think he called the CPU internal 16bit by mistake at one point..
They can operate on 32bit data but in 16bit chunks:
add.w D0,D1 <-- 4 cpu cycles
add.l D0,D1 <-- 8 cpu cycles
Atari: V4sa TT030 Falcon030 Mega ST Mega STe 1040 STe 520 STm 800XL 65XE Jaguar Lynx I/II 7800 Portfolio / VME: ATW800/2 Mach64 Mach32 ET4000 CrazyDots PAMNet / SM146 SC1435 SM124 / Antonia2 ATSpeedC16 TF536 PAK68/3
Megafile30 Atari1050 DDDHDD XCA12 SF314 / AVGCART SUBCART SidecarTridge ACSI2STM FujiNet LynxMultiCard SkunkBoard CosmosEx SatanDisk UltraSatan USBFloppyDriveEmulator SDrive SIO2PC Eiffel
http://260ste.atari.org
Megafile30 Atari1050 DDDHDD XCA12 SF314 / AVGCART SUBCART SidecarTridge ACSI2STM FujiNet LynxMultiCard SkunkBoard CosmosEx SatanDisk UltraSatan USBFloppyDriveEmulator SDrive SIO2PC Eiffel
http://260ste.atari.org